Year: 2020

 by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would appoint a content oversight board to act as the final decision maker […]

  Here are examples of screens that a person may see if exposed to another person with Covid-19   Here are screens that a person might use to share their positive test result to notify […]

Apple has upgraded its most powerful laptop, the MacBook Pro. Starting at $1,299, the least expensive of the new laptops have twice as much storage (256 GB) as before and the higher-end ones have the […]

 When it comes to free online video conferencing, Zoom now has competition from the internet’s two biggest players, the new Messenger Rooms from Facebook and the newly free consumer version of Google Meet.  Meet […]

A new feature released this week enables Teslas to automatically stop at stop signs and red lights. To get the feature you need to have paid for the so-called Full Self Driving package which currently […]

CBS News technology analsyt Larry Magid speaks with Otter.ai executives Simon Lau and Mari Mineta Clapp about the new integration with Zoom video conferencing to create real-time live transcripts of Zoom meetings. Scroll down for […]

On Thursday, April 23rd, ConnectSafely’s Larry Magid and Kerry Gallagher spoke with Jeff Collins and Lavanya Mahendran about all things TikTok, including how people are creatively using the service during this period plus TikTok’s new […]

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I know I’m a little late but every day should be Earth Day. I usually commemorate Earth Day by writing about the ways technology can help us […]

My friend and fellow veteran tech journalist Wayne Rash has a well-researched post on Forbes where he reports that “Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the worldwide level of concern surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus to […]

This works on PCs, Macs and Chromebook. First, make sure you have the latest version of Chrome (81 or higher). To be sure, click on the 3 dots to the right of your browser, select […]